Title 

Postmortem Artefacts due to Ant-bites.

Authors

Sadanand Bhise, Ashish Pathak, Rahul R wagh

 Abstract

The Post-Mortem artefact is defined as “any change caused or any feature introduced into the body after death (accidental or physiologically unrelated finding to the natural state of the body), that is likely to lead to misinterpretation of medically significant ante-mortem findings.” Post- Mortem Artefact is any physiologically and pathologically unrelated alteration or introduction of new features into the deceased to its natural state and is likely to cause misinterpretations for the investigators or for a layman who is unfamiliar with this phenomenon. In this case dead body of 17 year old female was found in hanged condition with multiple abrasion marks over face, eyes, armpits, and genitals. The primary investigation and presumption of police was it is a case of rape with murder but during Post-Mortem it was found that injuries over the genitalia were due to ant-bite, detailed case report is given bellow.

keywords 

Abrasion, Artefacts, Ligature mark.

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